Epidemic of Child Sex Abuse in School Sparks Outrage – Liberty Sentinel

Officials and teachers at government schools across the nation have been raping and sexually abusing millions of captive children, even as school districts and the dishonest media work to cover up the scandals, according to researchers. The scale of the horror dwarfs the abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy.

New research confirms that sexual misconduct by government educators revealed in shocking U.S. Department of Education statistics from more than 20 years remains a major problem. Writing at RealClearInvestigaions.com, James Varney calls it the “largest ongoing sexual abuse scandal in our nation’s history.”

Even though the horrific problem is well known in the industry, the problem appears to be getting worse. And there are powerful efforts to suppress the news. In fact, the Biden administration sought to stop all data collection on sexual crimes by government school educators — apparently a favor to the $1 trillion-per-year education establishment and teachers unions that funnel so much public money into Democrat campaign coffers.

Varney, too, fingered teachers’ unions for their efforts to keep the iceberg of horror hidden from view. “For a variety of reasons, ranging from embarrassment to eagerness to avoid liability, elected or appointed officials, along with unions or lobbying groups representing school employees, have fought to keep the truth hidden from the public,” he continued.

In 2004, the U.S. Department of Education released perhaps the most comprehensive review of the data on sex crimes by educators against children. The “Shakeshaft Report,” authored by Carol Shakeshaft and based on a survey of existing research, found that about one in ten children had been victims of sexual misconduct by government school staff.  

If those conclusions were correct, tens of millions of American children have been sexually abused, raped, molested, or attacked by government-school employees in recent decades. In fact, a growing body of evidence — both data and anecdotes — suggests the problem has become even more severe since the original report was released.

According to the data that does exist, over two thirds of the perpetrators are male. Slightly more than half of the victims are female, suggesting a disproportionate amount of the abuse and misconduct is being perpetrated by homosexual men. More than a third of victims are below high-school age.

Perhaps even more alarming: Only a tiny fraction of the abuse, rape, and misconduct is ever reported, researchers found. And even when it is reported, “privacy” laws passed by bought-and-paid for politicians and outrageous union contracts often protect the accused, allowing them to move from school to school undetected while racking up more victims.   

Unfortunately for child victims, the U.S. Department of Education does not and has never tracked sexual misconduct committed by school staff against students. And it does not appear seriously interested in doing anything about it, other than working to cover it up by ending all data collection and burying the information.  

“DOE has never aggressively worked to stop teachers’ unions and administrators from passing the trash,” explained California Poly State University Professor Billie-Jo Grant, described as one of the nation’s top researchers on the topic. “Passing the trash” is a term used to describe the tactics of school officials to cover up the abuse.

Meanwhile, there is no accountability against those who protect and enable the widespread sexual abuse of children by government officials. “DOE does not hold accountable the many enablers who have created a pool of mobile molesters in our schools nationwide,” continued Grant. “Your questions should include why? Why? Why?”

The problem is still growing. A much more recent study published just last year found that almost 12 percent of recent high-school graduates reported at least one form of sexual misconduct by educators during K-12. The research, based on a survey of 6632 participants, found that few reports resulted in disciplinary action against the educators in question.

While only a tiny fraction of the abuse and misconduct is reported, the number of reports is astounding. Consider that between 2017 and 2018, an incredible 14,152 reports of sexual assault by educators or school faculty were filed. That was an increase of 53 percent from 2015 to 2016. Shakeshaft’s research estimated that just 6 percent of victims report.

Varney did a survey of scandals that had happened just in the preceding month and found news articles detailing monstrous child rape sprees by school faculty—oftentimes teachers and staff that had previously been reported for sexual misconduct and yet were allowed to stay or move to another government school.  

There are growing calls to stop the abuse by organizations such as Stop Educator Sexual Abuse, Misconduct and Exploitation (SESAME). According to SESAME chief Terri Miller, the number of victims is “staggering,” even when compared with the more than 4,000 reports of sex abuse by priests reported to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2021.  

“The rate of educator sexual misconduct is 10 times higher in one year’s time than in five decades of abuse by clergy,” Miller was quoted as saying. “Another striking contrast is we are not mandated to send our children to church; we are mandated to send them to school.”

Dr. Elizabeth Jeglic, a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at John Jay College who studies sexual violence prevention, gave an update on the situation last summer. She said the data show educator sexual misconduct in American schools “remains a serious problem” that is “impacting millions of students.”

To deal with it, Dr. Jeglic demanded “zero-tolerance policies” for “boundary violations of a sexual nature” in a piece for Psychology Today headlined “Educator Misconduct Remains Prevalent in Schools.” She also proposed training, new reporting procedures, laws preventing teachers from resigning to avoid investigations, a national database for offenders, and other measures.

Sexual abuse of a child is one of the most terrible crimes that a person can commit. With untold millions of children facing sexual misconduct by government-school educators, it is time for law enforcement and the justice system to get serious — and for parents to protect their children from predators before any more innocent kids become victims.

Originally published at FreedomProject.com